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Blues Offer On-Line Medicare Guide
By Staff WriterThe Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has unveiled a new Web site to help consumers find Blues plans offering Medicare products in their ...
December 20, 2005
Global Health Costs To Triple In Net 15 Years%3A StudyGlobal health care spending will triple over the next 15 years to $10 trillion dollars, according to survey findings by PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.[@@]The survey projects ...
December 20, 2005
Bankers Look To Boost HSA RoleThe banking industry, looking to increase its role as a distributor of health care savings accounts, has formed a new group to work toward ...
December 19, 2005
Kanawha To Use InSystems SoftwareKMG America Corp., Minneapolis, is adopting a form-filing system developed by a unit of Standard Register Company.[@@]Kanawha Insurance Company, a unit of KMG, Minnetonka, ...
December 19, 2005
California OKs UnitedHealth%2DPacifiCare DealGolden State regulators have persuaded a suitor for a commercial managed care company to make the kinds of commitments that buyers of nonprofit health ...
December 19, 2005
AIG Unit Markets Government Worker HRAsAn insurer has started selling a health reimbursement arrangement plan designed for government employees.[@@]AIG VALIC Inc., a subsidiary of American International Group Inc., New ...
December 19, 2005
Conseco May Add LTC%2DLife Hybrid Product %28Corrected%29A Midwestern insurer that was struggling 2 years ago is starting to make what looks like a strong comeback.[@@]Andrew Kligerman and other securities analysts ...
December 19, 2005
Fund Giant To Add HSAsFidelity Investments says its employer services business will set up a health savings account program in 2007.[@@]The program will offer health accounts, recordkeeping services, ...